Middle Ages Quotes

• Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.

  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Witty, Two

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• Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

  Denis Norden

  Holiday, Sweaters, Age

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• I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Creative, Age, Doe

  "The Daniel Day-Lewis Nine Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 17, 2009.

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• We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Happiness, Two

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

  Bob Hope

  Birthday, Witty, Funny Inspirational

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  The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Birthday, Time

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• Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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• Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Birthday, Age, Emotion

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• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Feminism, Age

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

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• Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Golf, Age

  Nods and Becks (1944)

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• What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Time, Book

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)”, p.18, Sigmund Freud

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• Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

  Ronald Reagan

  Birthday, Home, Two

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

  Robert Quillen

  Hurt, Giving Up, Feel Better

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• Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Birthday, Men, Years

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

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• Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

  Mason Cooley

  Birthday, Lost Youth, Mourning

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• No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

  Goldwin Smith

  Artist, Age, Students

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

  Lytton Strachey

  Dark, Atmosphere, Age

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.30, Delphi Classics

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• Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

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• Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

  William Feather

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

  George Santayana

  Reflection, Age, Doe

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Age, World, Earth

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton

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• One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Nice, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Birthday, Friday

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